LECTURE 1: BJT CONSTRUCTION & OPERATION

PROBLEM 12
A base current of 50 mA is applied to the transistor below, and a voltage of 5 V is dropped across RC. Determine
the βDC and αDC of the transistor.
LECTURE 2: DC BIASING & BJT AMPLIFIERS
DC OPERATING POINT
1. The output (collector voltage) of a biased transistor amplifier is shown below. Is the transistor biased too
close to cutoff or too close to saturation?

2. Determine the following for the base-bias configuration shown below.

LOAD LINE ANALYSIS
3. Given the load line below and the defined Q-point, determine the required values of VCC, RC, and
RB for a fixed-bias configuration.
4. Determine VC and VB for the network shown below.

Solution
The Thévenin resistance and voltage are determined for the network to the left of the base
terminal as shown below.
The network can then be redrawn as shown below, where the application of Kirchhoff’s voltage law
will result in;

PRACTICAL DESIGN OPERATIONS

5. Given that ICQ = 2 mA and VCEQ = 10 V, determine R1 and RC for the network shown below.
BJT AMPLIFIERS
Relative comparison of amplifier configurations
1. Determine the following values for the amplifier shown in the figure below.

2. Connect a bypass capacitor across RE in the above circuit, and repeat Problem 1.

3. Determine the following ac values for the amplifier circuit shown below, for the emitter current (IE)
of 2.55 mA.
 BJT AMPLIFIERS FREQUENCY RESPONSE

Miller’s Theorem

The decibel

BJT Amplifier Low-frequency Response

BJT Amplifier High-frequency Response

Total Response
 TOTAL FREQUENCY RESPONSE

1. Based on the BJT Common – emitter amplifier on figure 5, and the total frequency response of the
amplifier.
(i) List capacitances that affect low-frequency response of the amplifier
(ii) List capacitances that affect high-frequency response of the amplifier.
(iii) Determine the midband gain (Av (mid)) of the amplifier
(iv) Determine the Miller input capacitance.
(v) Determine the Miller output capacitance.

2. For the BJT Common-Emitter Amplifier circuit in Figure 4, and its frequency response parameters
given in Table 1;
(i) Find the Midband voltage gain in dB
(ii) Draw the Total Frequency Response Plot/graph of the Amplifier
(iii) Find the Bandwidth of the Amplifier.
LECTURE 4 & 5: OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS
1. Find these quantities when the input voltages shown in figure 5 below are applied to the scaling adder.

2. Find the value of Rf that will produce the indicated closed-loop gain in each amplifier.
3. (a) A triangular waveform with a peak-to-peak voltage of 2 V and a period of 1 ms is applied to the
differentiator in figure (a). What is the output voltage?
(b) Beginning in position 1 in figure (b), the switch is thrown into position 2 and held there for 10
ms, then back to position 1 for 10 ms, and so forth. Sketch the resulting output waveform if its initial
value is 0 V. The saturated output levels of the op-amp are ±12 V.
4. FORMULAE DERIVATIONS FOR OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER CIRCUITS

Inverting Amplifier

Non-inverting Amplifier
Summing Amplifier
Differential Amplifier
Integrator
Differentiator
LECTURE 6: ANALOGUE FILTER DESIGN

Key formulae
 4. A single-pole high-pass filter has an RC circuit with R = 2.2 kΩ and C = 0.0015 μF.
(a) What is the critical frequency?
(b) Can you determine the bandwidth from the available information, and give
reasons why?
(c) What is the roll-off rate of this filter? (d) What is the bandwidth of a band-pass
filter whose cut-off frequencies are 3.2 kHz and 3.9 kHz? What is the Q of this filter?

5. Determine the center frequency and bandwidth for each filter in Figure